Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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Cl)c Marionette ’24 Mi A Fireside Tale Now gather ' round here by the fireside And I’ll tell you an interesting tale, Of that school over yonder called Marion Not yet has she furled her fair sail. When I was a Freshman in college. {’Twas in Marion I started, you know) The place was a new institutioni, But e’en then it had started to grow. « r M As a ship bound for shore in the distance, For a land full of promise and hope, The sea where she sailed gave her welcome. From localities ' round came the folk To bid her God speed on her journey. In their midst then, to welcome her there. They gave her a pleasant reception, Their good will she always will share. The crew of that ship, our professors. Were a company loyal and true: And they guided the vessel so surely All the gales and storms we came through. Once the captain was changed for another, And the crew sometimes changed personnel, But they ever were ready to help us, And we honor and love them well. Marion College has had many students From states far and wide—here at home Have come some from the neighbors about her. While some came o’er the ocean’s white foam. But wherever his home or his country, Each student e’er felt that he gained There in Marion a fair Alma Mater, And of her he ' d ne ' er be ashamed rhus that good ship is still speading onward. And she fears not the wind nor the tide; She still carries her passengers safely To the far fields of knowledge so wide. Now my story is ended this evening. But remember it when you depart; For the history of Marion College Is a story that’s dear to each heart. —Elizabeth Wilson. 10 1 ,fl WW ' r

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Circ marionette ’24 President’s Message ' ' T ' E have passed another milestone. Whatever we have achieved this year, either of success or failure, has now become history. We, with the rest of the world, have been rushed through the last twelve months almost before we were aware of it. We have done a little here and a little there, but it seems as though cur efforts had touched so lightly the great sum total of activ¬ ities around us, as to leave no impression at all. And if we look only from the human and worldly standpoint, this is, no doubt, true. But Christian education does not build alone for time, nor can the results of even a single year be measured in so many hours spent, or so many credits gained. The stndents who go out from a Christian school can not be counted as so many pieces cast in a particular mould, and shaped to fit somewhere among the wheels and cogs of a social or political machine which moves for a few years the affairs of men.. Lives are Eternal things, and it is the province of a Christian College to so unite the intellectual and the spiritual that the union may reflect the wisdom and love of God who created both the intellect and the spirit, compliments of each other. Christian Education enables the intellect to get a more perfect and com¬ prehensive view of its surroundings. As the field glass aids the general in his campaign, so Christian Education enables one to locate himself in God’s great universe. It lifts the spiritual into the border land of Omniscience that the emotions may be stirred by things great and beautiful, created for the soul’s enjoyment and for God’s glory. Christian Education also seeks to renew the ’’spirit of the mind, that the spiritual may impart to the intellectual the fire of the holy zeal, sympathy and love lest the intellectual becomes cold, formal and lifeless. This, then, is our aim: To maintain at Marion College, through the years ahead of us, such an intelligect for the spiritual and such a spirit for the in¬ tellectual, that together these may set in motion forces which shall continue to bless men while time lasts and glorify God in the Eternity beyond.